Electron tunneling through double magnetic barriers in Weyl semimetals

Electron collimator in Weyl semimetals with periodic magnetic barriers

We investigate theoretically the effect of periodic magnetic barriers on the transport for a Weyl semimetal. We find that there are momentum and spin filtering tunneling behaviors, which is controlled by the numbers of the magnetic barriers. For the tunneling through periodic square-shaped magnetic barriers, the transmission is angular φ asymmetry, and the asymmetrical transmission probability becomes more pronounced with increasing the superlattice number n. However, the transmission is symmetric with respect to angle γ, and the window of the transmission become more and more narrower with increasing the number of barriers, i.e., the collimator behavior. This feature comes from the electron Fabry-Pérot modes among the barriers. We find that the constructive interference of the backscattering amplitudes suppress transmissions, and consequently form the minigaps of the transmission. The transmission can be switched on/off by tuning the incident energies and angles, the heights and numbers of the magnetic barriers, and result in the interesting collimator behavior.